CD 1

 1.  Carmen: Votre toast…Toreador, en garde (Bizet)

 2.  Pagliacci: Si puo?...In nido di memorie (Leoncavallo)

 3.  On the Road to Mandalay (Speaks-Kipling)

 4.  De Glory Road (Jacques Wolfe-Clement Wood)                          

From the 1935 film, “Metropolitan.” 20th Century-Fox studio orch., cond. by Alfred Newman. Movie studio pianist on tracks 3-4.

 5.  Falstaff: É sogno, o realtà? (Verdi) 3/3/1926

 6.  Faust: Avant de quitter (Gounod) 4/20/1934

 7.  Un ballo in Maschera: Eri tu (Verdi) 5/31/1929

 8.  Hallelujah Rhythm (Wolfe-Langston Hughes) 10/19/1936

Victor Orchestra, cond. by Rosario Bourdon (5,7), Nathaniel Shilkret (6) & Alexander Smallens (8)

 9.  Shake Your Brown Feet, Honey (J.A. Carpenter)

10. The Rousabout [The Packet Boat] (Rupert Hughes)

5/29/1928 Stewart Wille, pianist

11. The Song is You (Kern-Hammerstein) 12/8/1932

Victor Orchestra, cond. by Nathaniel Shilkret

12. Ol’ Man River (Kern-Hammerstein)

13. A Kingdom By the Sea [Annabelle Lee] (Somervell)

12/16/1932 Stewart Wille, pianist

14. Merry Mount: ‘Tis an earth defiled (Hanson) 1/19/1934

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, cond. by Wilfred Pelletier

15. Edward (Carl Loewe) 10/29/1931 Stewart Wille, pianist

16. The Star-Spangled Banner (Smith) 2/15/1937 Radio orch.

17. Suomen laulu [Song of Finland] (Fredrik Pacius)

Kirsten Flagstad, soprano; Karin Branzell, alto; Lauritz Melchior, tenor; Cincinnati Symphony Orch., cond. by Eugene Goossens 12/29/1939

18. Goin’ Home (Dvořák-Fisher) 10/19/1936

19. Porgy and Bess: I got plenty o’ nuttin’ (Gershwin-Heyward)

20. Porgy and Bess: Oh Bess, oh where’s my Bess? (Gershwin-Heyward) 10/23/1935

Victor Orch., cond. by Alexander Smallens

21. May All My Enemies Go to Hell (Hilaire Belloc) 12/1936

CD 2

 1.  Rigoletto: Pari siamo (Verdi)

 2.  Rigoletto: Povera Rigoletto…Cortigianni (Verdi)

George Cehanovsky, baritone; John Engelman, Giovannni Paltrinieri, tenors; Metropolitan Opera Orch., cond. by Gennaro Papi 3/11/1939

 3.  Otello: Inaffia l’ugola (Verdi)

 4.  Otello: Credo in un Dio crudel (Verdi)

 5.  Otello: Era la notte (Verdi)

Nicholas Massue, tenor; Metropolitan Op Orch., Ettore Panizza 2/12/1938

 6.  Tannhäuser: Als du in kuhnem Sange (Wagner)5

 7.  Tannhäuser: Wie Todesahnung…O du mein holder (Wagner)

Paltrinieri, tenor; Suzanne Clemens, soprano; Met Op Orch., cond. Artur Bodanzky 1/18/1936

 8.  La Traviata: Imponete (Verdi)

 9.  La Traviata: Di provenza il mar (Verdi)

Rosa Ponselle, soprano; Met Opera Orch., cond. Ettore Panizza 1/5/1935

10. Il Trovatore: Il balen del suo sorriso (Verdi) 2/25/1936

11. Tosca: Te Deum (Puccini) 4/13/1929

12. Tosca: Già! Mi dicon venal (Puccini) 2/25/1936

Radio orch. (10, 12); Victor Orch. & Chorus, cond. Bourdon (11)

13. Faust: Le veau d’or (Gounod)

14. Faust: Merci de la chanson (Gounod)

From 1936 film, “Under Your Spell”; Paltrinieri, tenor; Suzanne Clemens, soprano; studio orch. cond. Alfred Newman 8/1936

15. Die Walküre: Wotan’s farewell (Wagner)

Philadelphia Orch., cond. by Leopold Stokowski 4/30/1934

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